Sentence examples for surrender under from inspiring English sources

In 1862 he was in command of the Confederate forces at Fort Donelson in Tennessee but withdrew his brigade before the surrender, under circumstances never clarified.

He gave inflexible orders whereby whole armies were made to stand their ground in tactically hopeless positions and were forbidden to surrender under any circumstances.

It contends the Christie administration has failed to provide data that it is required to surrender under the state's open records laws.

Saatchis created a poster that featured a British soldier holding his arms aloft in surrender, under the headline: "Labour's Policy On Arms".

After a five-day siege, the militia persuaded the families to surrender under a flag of truce and a pledge of safe passage.

The prohibition against many battlefield ruses, including using the flag of surrender under false pretenses, is called perfidy in the law of war.

If Prague surrenders under the threat of invasion, then the crisis would be averted.

Ten days earlier, he surrendered under the aegis of the amnesty program.

But in two of the saddest Super Bowl stories, much sadder than each team's loss, both surrendered under the pressure -- Robbins to alcohol, Wilson to cocaine.

Then there's the grey market, comprised of rifles and shotguns that weren't registered or surrendered under the National Firearms Agreement in 1996.

The resulting jamboree coincides with another suspect announcement: that 80% of the Islamist militants who have waged a bloody insurrection for most of the past eight years surrendered under an amnesty that expired on January 13th.